THOMAS

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• THOMAS TREDGOLD (1788-1829)

TREDGOLD (1788-1829)  , English engineer, was born at Brandon, near Durham, on the 22nd of August 1788, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to a carpenter . In 1808 he went to Scotland, and after working there as a journeyman for five years, obtained employment, in London with an architect . He began to practice as a civil engineer on his own account in 1823, but much of his time was devoted to the preparation of his engineering text-books, which gained a wide reputation . They included Elementary Principles of Carpentry (182o), almost the first book of its kind in English; Practical Treatise on the Strength of Cast Iron and other Metals (1824); Principles of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings (1824); Practical Treatise on Railroads and Carriages (1825); and The Steam Engine (1827) . He died in London on the 28th of January 1829 .